Ryan G. Anderson

Ryan Gibson Anderson (1978-) was an American Washington National Guardsman who, on 3 September 2004, was convicted of conspiring with al-Qaeda to kill his tank crew during the Iraq War.

Biography
Ryan Gibson Anderson was born in Everett, Washington in 1978, and he converted to Islam in 1999 and adopted the name "Amir Abdul Rashid". Anderson joined the US National Guard and became a Specialist (E-4) in a tank crew, being assigned to the 81st Armored Brigade. In 2004, he was contacted online by Montana judge Shannen Rossmiller, who was posing as an Islamist leader, and he told her that he wanted to assist her with killing US soldiers, including his own crew. He was arrested on 12 February 2004, and, on 3 September 2004, he was court-martialled, demoted to private, and sentenced to a life sentence in prison.